THE HONOURABLE SRI JUSTICE N. TUKARAMJI CRIMINAL PETITION No.6618 of 2025

ORDER:

This Criminal Petition is filed under Section 528 of Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023 (for short ‘BNSS, 2023’) seeking quashment of the proceedings in S.C.NDPS.No.274 of 2022 on the file of the learned Metropolitan Session Judge, Nampally at Hyderabad, against the petitioner/accused No.8.

2. Heard Ms.Padmaja Gadiraju, learned counsel representing the learned counsel for the petitioner and Mr.Jithender Rao Veeramalla, learned Additional Public Prosecutor appearing for the respondent No.1-State.

3. The petitioner is arrayed as accused No.8 in S.C.NDPS.No.274 of 2022 for the offences under Section 8 (c) r/w. 21 (b) and Section 27 of the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act, 1985 (for short ‘NDPS Act’).

4. The prosecution case in brief is that the petitioner’s name has and 2 as consumer.

5. Learned counsel for the petitioner would submit that the prosecution, after investigation, filed charge sheet against the Nos.1 and 2, without any material substance. A coordinate bench of this Court had considered the similar allegations in Criminal Petition Nos.13228 of 2024, 5502 of 2023, 1296 of 2024,